[Daphne – Actually, pop art can be quite remarkable and there are whole museum wings dedicated to it. I rather suspect that what you have in mind is not pop art but tacky kitsch. I rather like pop art, but then I love that whole late 1960s/early 1970s thing.]

[Daphne – Yes, but I’m not surprised. He’s been gnashing his teeth with all the other conservative traditionalists in Astrid’s Army for ages. They think they’re liberal because they support gay rights – at least those of them who are gay do; the rest make that limp-wrist gesture when pronouncing the word ‘gay’ – and favour divorce legislation (as though the world’s millions of right-wing conservatives don’t). But the unifying factor among all these people is that they’re so damned old-fashioned and want things to stay the same or better, hark back to the ‘glorious’ past when Sliema was full of men tipping hats at ladies, as they imagine it. The irony is that Klaus frowns on homosexual relationships and takes a very dim view of divorce, largely because he is one of those insufferable religious bigots who want to impose their way of life on everyone else. Yet the ‘liberal’ army are happy to have him around on this one, it appears.]